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The characteristic of person will effect to their ability in communication. There are two main characters of persons. They are extrovert and introvert. Both of these terms are in contradiction. They affect someone communication competence because of motivation and egoism between extroversion and introversion are difference. Basically, the learner’s personality can help the learner to get success in learning language. Moreover, by knowing the learner personality, the lectures and learner can choose the appropriate learning strategies for them. This study is aimed to give the description the experienced of EFL teachers related to the challenges and strategies in teaching learning process in speaking subject for introvert students.

Teaching English in elementary school is not easy, as we know, because the young learners do not have idea the reason of learning English. Besides, we know that teaching English to young learners at elementary school is different from adults. Teacher has to understand the characteristic of young learners and have to manage the classroom. Researcher believes that developing English textbook based on CTL can improve the students’ skill in English. Furthermore, this study focuses on materials development of English for fourth grade students. This study aimed to develop English text book for the fourth Grade Students of SDN Rampal Celaket I Malang 2013/ 2014 that introduce English from the first students to the sixth students although the English’s position as extracurricular. The procedures being employed in this study were, doing need analysis, developing English textbook, conducting expert validation, try-out and revising the materials. The final product of this development was the students’ book entitled “ Fantastic of English for Fourth Grade Students of Elementary School”. It supplemented by teachers’ guide. The book consisted of six units and was developed into six sections, they were listening, speaking, reading followed by vocabularies, writing, grammar that suitable with students level and fun corner which dealt with games and song.

Keywords:

Material development, English textbook, elementary school

Developing English Textbook for Fourth Grade Students in Elementary School. Available from:

An Analysis Of Phonetics b, d, g, j,d3 and ð into English pronunciation for Java Students (A Study On Java Students at English Department on STAIN Bengkulu Academic Year 2011-2012)

M. Arif Rahman Hakim

State College for Islamic Studies (STAIN) Bengkulu, Indonesia

Abstract

The objective of this research was to analyse how to pronounce phonetics b, d, g, j,d3 and ð into English pronunciation for Java Students in English Study Program of STAIN Bengkulu academic year 2011-2012. This research was used descriptive qualitative method. The population of this research is all of Java students in English Study Program of STAIN Bengkulu academic year 2011-2012. The data were collected by using a record player and then to be analysed how strong the influence of that phonetics when they pronounce it, is it influence the meaning of sentence, or only has a stressing that changing the sounds. To avoid subjectively, this research was helped by a native speaker from United States of America (USA), Jeremy Tosh B. A. The result of this research was students that still did stressing in phonetics that researched as follows :

DEVELOPING SUPPLEMENTARY SPEAKING MATERIALS FOR INTROVERT STUDENTS

M. Arif Rahman Hakim

ABSTRACT

The characteristic of person will effect to their ability in communication. There are two main characters of persons. They are extrovert and introvert. Both of these terms are in contradiction. They affect someone communication competence because of motivation and egoism between extroversion and introversion are difference. Basically, the learner’s personality can help the learner to get success in learning language. Moreover, by knowing the learner personality, the lectures and learner can choose the appropriate learning strategies for them. This study is aimed to develop speaking instructional materials for introvert students at 2nd semester of English Department in IAIN Bengkulu. The product of this study consists of seven chapters that completed with book mapping, explanation about the topics and materials, some examples related to the topics and materials, conversation practice and some fresh colorful photos within each chapter to support the materials. Based on the tried out, the introvert students felt enjoy with the composition of the book

KEYWORDS

Supplementary Materials, Introvert Students, Cooperative Learning

Download for the full version in http://ejournal.iainbengkulu.ac.id/index.php/linguists/article/view/162/149

8.Journal on English as a Foreign Language (JEFL); Volume 7, Number 1. P-ISSN 2088-1657, E-ISSN 2502-6615.

METAPHORICAL EXPRESSIONS IN THE BOOK NGAWUR KARENA BENAR BY SUJIWO TEJO: A PRAGMATIC APPROACH

M. Arif Rahman Hakim, Sabila Medina

ABSTRACT

This study concerns on metaphorical expressions in the book Ngawur Karena Benar written by Sujiwo Tejo and their nonliteral meaning. In finding the metaphorical expressions, researchers used the theory of metaphor. Otherwise, in analyzing the nonliteral meaning, it was used relevance approach. According to relevance theory, the process of interpreting a metaphorical expression comprises the following steps: decoding the linguistic input by arraying possible meanings of an utterance and drawing inferences by taking into account both the results of linguistic decoding. The problems are to answer: 1) what metaphorical expressions can be found in the book Ngawur Karena Benar by Sujiwo Tejo, 2) what are the meanings of the metaphorical expressions used in the book. This study applied qualitative research method by employing document analysis approach to get detailed data description from the object analysis. Results of this study revealed that the metaphorical expressions are used to deliver a complicated circumstance in revealing the real condition. In line with the finding, the nonliteral meaning of the metaphorical expression needs an intralinguistic that is the information we can receive by decoding the linguistic input while the extralinguistic factor is the assumptions taken from context by drawing inferences.

Abstract: Teachers’ Strategies in Teaching Speaking Lessons on introvert Students in Madrasah Aliyah (MA) Ja-alHaq Bengkulu. The ability of a person in communication is often influenced by the characteristics of his personality. Based on the research of experts, there are two main characters in a person, namely extrovert and introvert. Students with an introverted character have a different ability than an orthograd student in communicating a foreign language. To overcome this problem, the teacher of Madrasah Aliyah (MA) Ja-alHaq-as the object of this study – did some strategies to improve students’ speaking skills. This study aims to provide a description of English teachers in Indonesia who are experienced in speaking teaching related to the challenges and strategies in teaching and learning process for students with introverted characteristics. Based on the research results, it can be concluded that teachers are advised to apply the discussion, role play, story telling, and interview. In addition, the teacher must also know the character of the learners because by knowing the personality of learners, the teachers can choose the appropriate learning strategy to be applied in the classroom.